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    No Man's Land

    R1987 · Crime drama · 1h 46m

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  1. No man's land is waste or unowned land or an uninhabited or desolate area that may be under dispute between parties who leave it unoccupied out of fear or uncertainty. The term was originally used to define a contested territory or a dumping ground for refuse between fiefdoms.

  2. 1. a. : an area of unowned, unclaimed, or uninhabited land. b. : an unoccupied area between opposing armies. c. : an area not suitable or used for occupation or habitation. downtown was a retailing no-man's-land. 2. : an anomalous, ambiguous, or indefinite area especially of operation, application, or jurisdiction.

  3. Sep 13, 2018 · No-mans-land might be defined as the disputed space between Allied and German trenches–from the coast at one end to Switzerland 470 miles away at the other–which became the princi­pal killing field of a notoriously cruel and inhuman war.

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  5. The wild deserters of no mans land, whether angels or devils—or even flesh-eating ghouls who emerge only at night—is the stuff of a legend extremely rich in symbolic value. It reminds us...

  6. "No Man's Land" was a popular term during the First World War to describe the area between opposing armies and trench lines. How it came to exist and how far it might extend was influenced by a variety of military and topographic factors.

  7. No Man's Land, Illinois, 20km north of Chicago, became especially notorious. Largely lawless, the area was renowned as “a slot machine and keno sin center where college students were being...

  8. Jan 15, 2010 · Today, it is the Oklahoma Panhandle, but during the late 1880s it was popularly known as "No Man's Land." The Public Land Strip, seasonal home to nomadic American Indians of the High Plains, was controlled by Comanche bands and allied groups from 1850 to 1875.

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